Let’s be honest, the rankings of gnome-look are weird at best and there is no good resource to gauge what icons / cursors / themes people like to use in their everyday DE.
So please share what icon-pack / cursor theme / GTK|QT theme you use, and why.
I used the Sweet-KDE color scheme for years on KDE Plasma, but recently I’ve been converting everything to Catppuccin Macchiato. Default icons and cursors.
I’m using EndeavourOS XFCE, but with two things on top:
- Nightfox Dusk BL GTK theme
- Tela Purple Dark icon theme
I think these two work really well together
Icon theme : Papirus Theme: Catppuccin Macchiato Cursor: Catppuccin Dark
As you can see I enjoy the catppuccin colorscheme for its variety.
For Gnome I use adw-gtk3 on automatic day/night switching because it makes everything look nice and uniform.
I prefer Tela icons to Papirus as they’re less cartoony.
I use Plasma with Breeze Dark theme and icons and adwaita cursors. Boring but works for me.
I use bibata modern cursor + papirus icon theme
The default
breeze-darkis good enough for me withpapirusdark icons andbreeze-neutralcursors.Edit: oh also I change the accent color to
#cc8899and the window decorations to just the x to close. I use gestures to interact with windows.Theme: depends. I’m rocking Gnome on my laptop, so something like Otis looks good in it. Kripton or Jasper (what I typically use in XFCE) also look nice regardless of DE IMO. Just depends, but mostly, it’s a dark theme so my already meh eyes are spared a flashbang. Very original, I know.
Icons: Gruvbox Plus. Dunno, just always kinda feel it. Guess I like the designs? Also love me some Win10Sur and Reversal Icons.
Cursor: Bibata, typically. Oreo Cursors, if i feel like adding more pazazz and color…which is most of the time, honestly (also helps make my mouse easy to find. Not that my desktop is cluttered it’s just nice to immededly know where it’s at with a glance).
. I frequently swap between XFCE and Gnome, and it works very nicely on both. I like the big square window buttons, like how windows does it, because it makes it easier to click rather then a small circle like most themes. Also I just like the look better.
I like the Kora icon pack.
Shameless self promotion, I made my own cursor pack. It’s Splatoon-themed. https://www.pling.com/p/2040163/
Dark breeze. I’m actively searching for icon alternatives but they are not well integrated with system-color-accent.
Dracula.
Numix icon theme Catppuccin for GTK Apple Cursor
- Colloid GTK Theme (Colloid-Dark)
- Papirus (Papirus-Dark)
- Adwaita Cursor Theme
I used the Equilux GTK theme for years but it’s been abandoned since 2018 and GNOME has changed a lot since then. I switched to Colloid and it didn’t take much to tweak it to my liking, mainly reducing the size of the titlebar and panel.
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